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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

Web scraping is an essential technique used in many organizations to scrape valuable data from web pages. This book will help you master web scraping techniques and methodologies using Python libraries and other popular tools such as Selenium. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to efficiently scrape different websites.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

11h40m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for Python programmers, data analysts, web scraping newbies, and anyone who wants to learn how to perform web scraping from scratch. If you want to begin your journey in applying web scraping techniques to a range of web pages, then this book is what you need! A working knowledge of the Python programming language is expected.

Book content

chapters 11h40m total length

Web Scraping Fundamentals

Python and the Web - Using urllib and Requests

Using LXML, XPath, and CSS Selectors

Scraping Using pyquery - a Python Library

Web Scraping Using Scrapy and Beautiful Soup

Working with Secure Web

Data Extraction Using Web-Based APIs

Using Selenium to Scrape the Web

Using Regex to Extract Data

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